How many mobile phones does the average South Korean have? What is the rage among Chinese websites designed for young people? Do we need to design different products for different cultures, or simply localize our existing line?

Everyone in the HCI community faces the barrage of information heralding the implications of globalization on designers and researchers. At the same time, Chinese designers attempt to assimilate Western design thinking into the design of local products. uiGarden (http://www.uigarden.net), a Chinese-operated webzine, developed to address these two needs, as proclaimed in their mission statement…